New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-08-03

Sunday afternoon there will be pic
mic and concert at 81 hmucke park.
4 Ice cream and coffee will be served.
/ Clerk johnson, Of Nicellet county,
has purchased the interest Of Mr.. Davis
| in the firm Of Stark & Davis, St. Peter.
JAG. Hoescheler has a sign out an
nouncing his place as the G. A. r.
Headquarters.
IF you want to have your fortune told
call at Turner Hall. The world re-
nowned Egyptian oracle will be pleased
to enlighten you.
John Albert returned from Chicago,
where he has purchased a new stock Of
clothing and gents furnishing goods,
Saturday morning.
The wild plum crop will be a total
failure this year. Wild grapes and but
ternuts are in a good condition and will
yield larger crop than in former
years.
The first case Of sun stroke reported
in this neighborbood occurred Monday.
Mr.. John Nothart, Of this city, who
was working on the farm Of John Lang.
of West Newton, was overcome by the
heat At last reports the patient was
resting easy.
! The railroads have done we'll by the
State Fair people this year. At no 9th
er time in the year can you go and
come for SO little money as during the
fair. Excursion tickets only a cent
and half mile, and good for return
until Monday, September 10th.
Lawn sociable at Turner Hall park
Thursday evening. Young, middle
aged and old men and women are ex-
pected to come and have their fortunes
told and stow away the ice-cream and
confectionaries prepared and sold by
beautiful maidens.
| The great feature Of the Fair this
year will be its exhibits of cattle. Four
herds of thoroughbred's have already
been entered, the value of which in
round numbers is 100000 Dollars. just
think of 100000 Dollars worth of cattle,
all prize winners.
Wednesday the sad intelligence was
received from St. Louis, that Mrs. F.
W. Landwehr, only daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. J. Stamm, had suddenly died
at that place. Mrs. Landwehr went to
St. Louis for medical treatment last
June. The remains were brought to
this city and inferred Friday evening.
The bereaved have the sympathy of the
entire community.
| The committee of British physicians
appointed to inquire into the PAsTEUB
method of treating hydrophobia have
| returned q verdict Of unqualified com.
mendation. ut may be deemed GER
tain, they say, ''that Nj. Pasteur has
discovered a method of protection from
rabies comparable with that vaccination
offers against infection from small
| pox." This is pretty strong language
from scientists SO proverbially conser
vative as the English. The committee
investigated personally 80 cases treated
| by Pasteur. OF these "a were bitten or
the naked body by undoubted rabiG
dogs supposed not to be rabid, while
the other patients were bitten through
the clothing. Not one Of these case.
proved fatal or even exhibited signs O
hydrophobia after incubation, The
committee review Pasteur's work anc
y give the following notable results -
Since, in order to quiet fears, M. Pas
teur has been obliged to inoculate many
in whom there was no satisfactory evi.
Z dence that the bite was that of a rabid
animal, it might be unjust to estimate
the total value of his treatment in the
whole Of his cases as being more than
the rate of mortality observed in them
compared with the lowest rate observed
in any large number Of cases not meal
culased. This lowest rate may be taken
at per cent. and as between October,
1885, and the end of December, 1886.
M. Pasteur inoculated 1852 persons
the mortality should have been 1870.
But at the end of 1886 the number OF
| deaths was 81, including seven bitten
| by wolves, in whom the symptoms 81
hydrophobia appeared while they were
Z under treatment in fact, the actual
percentage of mortality was between /
and IL, showing, on the lowest estimate,
| the saving of not less than 100 lives.
| OF 233 persons bitten by animals in
/ in which rabies was proved, only four
died. Without incubation, at least 40
! would have died. Among 1856 bitten On
the head or face by animals in which
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